Your kitchen counter can become a bustling lab of bubbling jars and exciting experiments. The growing trend of home pickling ...

Pickling cucumbers, in particular, are smaller and have thinner skins compared to slicing cucumbers, making them ideal for ...

Every summer, the market stalls groan with gherkins and bouquets of dill and horseradish. Gherkins are the most popular vegetable for pickling, which is still often done at home. Over a century ago, ...

2. You should use non-chlorinated water. 3. It’s best to use organic produce from a reliable source and avoid washing it before pickling. 4. Cabbages should be salted and well massaged, until they ...

Our grandparents and great-grandparents were on to something: pickling is a great way to take the bounty of your garden and make it last all year long. Even though we no longer rely on pickling to ...

In quick pickling, raw or minimally cooked ingredients are merely covered with brine and refrigerated, as opposed to traditional water-bath canning, which involves boiling in water to vacuum-seal ...

Sterilise both a 1 litre/1¾ pint pickling jar with a screw top lid and the lid in a large pot of boiling water that boils for at least 10 minutes. (Or use several smaller jars with lids.) Lift ...

This is whether I'm pickling watermelon rind, bean sprouts, figs or plums. I pack the cleaned fruit or vegetables fairly tightly into a sterilised jar then pour on the boiling liquid and seal ...